Quote - Quite possibly the initial comparisons should use the hybrid.  It all comes down to the effectiveness of it.  I've never seen the 2007 approach give good results with eyelashes.  That's one of the things I'm looking at closely.  For all it's flaws, the current approach can handle things like eyelashes.  That's basically what my garbled statement about tolerating mismatches is all about. 

 
Ahh - gotcha.  That makes perfect sense.  If the closest-vert method handles lashes well, then by all means, it should be used.

*[EDIT: of course I still think I'd use the Hybrid method - the ray-cast will either get hits (on very specific polygons), or it'll miss - in which case the closest-vert method gets used]

BTW, I see your other posts with the terrible results, but I won;t be able to look into that until later tonight... does the sample (tutorial) file(s) have the setup you used for those (v3, etc)?  If so, I'll grab those and do some tests myself tonight.

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